The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 123

The traveller having recovered, mounted his horse, and at the first streak of dawn he saw a stream dancing in front of him, and stooped down and drank his fill.

Who acts: traveller · What happens: have, recover, mount, see, stoop down, drink · To what, where: horse, stream dancing, first streak, fill

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 traveller	det
2	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mounted	nsubj
3	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 traveller	acl
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 having	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 traveller	punct
6	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mounted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 streak	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 streak	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 streak	amod
14	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 dawn	case
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 streak	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mounted	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dancing	det
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dancing	compound
21	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 front	case
23	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dancing	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 front	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stooped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stooped	cc
28	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mounted	parataxis
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 stooped	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drank	cc
31	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stooped	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fill	nmod:poss
33	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drank	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	the traveller not said here				tree rules
2	recover	participle	the traveller not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mount	past	the traveller	traveller's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	see	past	traveller	a stream dancing	the first streak of dawn	in front of horse	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus
5	stoop down	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	past		horse's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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